Atlas Biblica

    person

    Tychicus

    Τυχικός

    Tychicus was a faithful companion of Paul who served as his messenger to the churches in Asia Minor.

    verses
    7
    first named
    Acts 20:4
    last named
    Titus 3:12
    period
    the New Testament
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Tychicus?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Tychicus was a faithful companion and fellow worker of the Apostle Paul, mentioned several times in the New Testament (Act.20.4; Eph.6.21; Col.4.7; 2Ti.4.12; Tit.3.12). He was from the province of Asia (modern-day western Turkey) and accompanied Paul on his third missionary journey. Paul entrusted Tychicus with important missions, sending him as a messenger to the churches in Ephesus (Eph.6.21) and Colossae (Col.4.7) to deliver letters and bring news of Paul's circumstances. In these letters, Paul describes Tychicus as a beloved brother, faithful minister, and fellow servant in the Lord. Later, Paul sent Tychicus to Ephesus to relieve Timothy (2Ti.4.12) and planned to send him to Crete to assist Titus (Tit.3.12). Tychicus' frequent appearances in Paul's letters and his role as a trusted messenger demonstrate his significance in the early church and his close relationship with the apostle.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Tychicus10 of 14 entities the graph connects to Tychicus, in 2 groups: company 2, events 8. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.AsiaAssociated with · 20 versesSpeaker’s sending of Tychicus and OnesimusTook part in · 2 versesCompanyTelling1 event · 212 versesPaul1 event · 182 versesTimothy1 event · 28 versesEphesus1 event · 22 versesAristarchus1 event · 5 versesOnesimus2 events · 4 versesTrophimus1 event · 3 versesSopater1 event · 2 versesEventsTychicus

    The 10 best-attested of 14 are drawn. All 14 are listed below.

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    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Tychicus happensThe one place the claims about Tychicus reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Asia. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Tychicus there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Asia
    the New TestamentThe one place the claims about Tychicus reach

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 7, across 5 books.

    1. Acts1 verse

      20:4

    2. Ephesians2 verses

      6:216:24

    3. Colossians2 verses

      4:74:18

    4. 2 Timothy1 verse

      4:12

    5. Titus1 verse

      3:12

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Speaker’s sending of Tychicus and Onesimus and Tychicus TellingOnesimusRunaway slave, convert of Paulvia Speaker’s sending of Tychicus and OnesimusSendingSending is a concept gathering 488 labelled instances in the text.via Tychicus TellingTellingTelling is a concept gathering 189 labelled instances in the text.via AsiaElect ExilesElect Exiles is a group attested across 19 verses, connecting 6 pageable entities.via AsiaProvinceProvince is a concept gathering 13 labelled instances in the text.via AsiaTrophimusGentile Christian from Ephesus, companion of Paul

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    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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